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Expert Android Programming

You're reading from   Expert Android Programming Master skills to build enterprise grade Android applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468956
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prajyot Mainkar Prajyot Mainkar
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding the Gradle System FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring Android Studio Developer Tools 3. Leap into the Android Support Library 4. Google Play Services 5. Material Design 6. SOLID Android Development and Its Design Principles 7. Understanding MVC, MVP, MVVM and Clean Arch Patterns 8. Decision Making 9. Performance Matters 10. Building Restaurant finder 11. Backend Service 12. App Quality Service 13. Grow Up 14. Testing 15. Preparing for Google Play 16. Understanding App Store Analytics for Optimization

Google Maps

Google Maps is used in the app for finding the location of a place, or to navigate you to that place. Integrating Google Maps in the app is simple; check out the steps below:

First we need to enable the Google Maps API from the Developer Console link: https://console.cloud.google.com. In your project page select Library; then, under Google Maps APIs, select Google Maps Android API:

Next, enable the API so that it can be used in our application. After the Google Maps API is enabled, we need to start integrating it into our app:

In Android studio create a new Google Maps Activity:

After the activity is created, we need to create an API key from the developer console:

Go to the credentials section in the developer console, and create a new API key:

Here, select Android app and enter your app's package name and Sha-1 certificate. After saving the API key, use...

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